Boy Movies #86
A conversation about the “theatrical bingeable experience” with Cassidy Olsen
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Have you heard the word? Four guys are gonna play the Beatles in four movies that will comprise what director Sam Mendes wholechestedly referred to as “the first theatrical bingeable experience.”
This is a threat.
Breaking the news at CinemaCon not only forced normos to google “what is CinemaCon,” but forced the studio behind this theatrical bingeable experience (that would be Sony) to come up with a truly groundbreaking method of announcing the casting, which had been rumored online for months before officially being confirmed. They went about this by dressing the four guys (Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Barry Keoghan, and Joseph Quinn) like Hot Topic employees showing up for their first day of work and blasting their headshots on a huge screen like they were introducing a new X-Guardians of the Fantastic Avengers movie. The commodification of the Bea…
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